Pine64’s upcoming **ALPHA-One** is a small, fanless computer that stands out for a few reasons. One is that it’s made for AIL: the computer has an NPU with support for up to 20 TOPS of AI performance ad ships with a 7b Deepseek/Owen LLM pre-loaded and Pine64 says it supports about 3.5 tokens per second using that model.
Another reason is that the ALPHA-One doesn’t have an Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm processor. Instead it’s powered by a RISC-V chip. The little computer is expected to sell for $330 but Pine64 hasn’t revealed when you’ll actually be able to buy one yet.
The ALPHA-One isn’t an _entirely_ new device – it’s based on the StarPro64 single-board computer that was introduced last fall. But the ALPHA-One pairs that board with a fanless chassis and a 64GB eMMC module that holds the aforementioned LLM. Pine64 says it plans to provide a Meta Llama LLM in the future.
Don’t need those features, or prefer to bring your own case and storage? The StarPro64 will sell for $250.
The board has an ESWin EIC7700X processor that features:
* 4 x SiFive P550 RISC-V CPU cores @ 1.8 GHz
* Imagination AXM-8-256 GPU
* 20 TOPS NPU (INT8)
* 32GB LPDDR5 RAM
* 128Mb SPI boot flash
There’s also support for WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3, a PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 slot, and a set of ports that includes:
* 2 x USB 3.0 Type-A
* 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A
* 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
* 1 x microSD card reader
Other features include GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, MIPI-DSI, and MIPI-CSI connectors.
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